Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Finally, I wanted to try and capture my favorite nebula with the Galaxy S25 Ultra — M42 the Great Orion Nebula. It’s still high enough and far away from obstruction near ground level ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

An important clue to which perspective was right seemed to be hidden in the nebulae—fuzzy smears of light ("nebula" means "fuzzy ... only one star system (or galaxy) among myriad others.

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula ... a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. NGC 460 is surrounded ...

A magnitude 10.2 star lies a bit more than 2″ east of the nebula. A big neighbor This week’s second large-telescope target is barred spiral galaxy NGC 3109 in the constellation Hydra the Water ...

an emission nebula located in the constellation of Orion. This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there. But it isn’t stars which researchers were interested in ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

Round-ish with a bonus This week’s first large-scope object is elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, which lies in the sky’s largest constellation, Hydra the Water Snake. It shines at magnitude 10.8 and ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores ...